Ok, let me think of an alternative -- I already have something in mind,
which hopefully will be ok with everyone.

    beowulf:~> echo $PG:q
    -cn

I think that was for HP-UX, or maybe OSF/1, neither one of which I have
access to anymore.

+ Kim


| From:    Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
| Date:    Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:42:22 +0900
|
| >>>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:27:39 -0400,
| 	Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us> said:
|
| > I'm not sure if your argument is for or against the environment variable.
| > Only the environment variable will make a difference when finger is
| > called from a script or a binary.  The alias will not make it that far.
|
| Ah, your intention is to call finger from a script which may be used
| in other UNIX variants?
|
| Well, perhaps you can use the environment variable in the script
| explicitly (rathar than processing the environment in finger command).
| The reason I thought this is because I do not prefer per-commond
| environment variable (it always reminds me MS-DOS ;)), but I don't
| have strong opinion about this.
|
| BTW, does `pg' have a per-command environment variable?
| I cannot find such option in Solaris8 man page.
| --
| soda
|